Data on minimum wage workers.Last July, the first increase in a decade in the Federal minimum wage took effect. A Federal minimum wage level was first introduced for hourly paid workers in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act Fair Labor Standards Act or Wages and Hours Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1938 to establish minimum living standards for workers engaged directly or indirectly in interstate commerce, including those involved in production of goods bound and periodically has been raised since. BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. each year produces annual average estimates derived from the Current Population Survey of workers paid at hourly rates, including those at the current minimum wage. A compendium com·pen·di·um n. pl. com·pen·di·ums or com·pen·di·a 1. A short, complete summary; an abstract. 2. A list or collection of various items. of these data, available at http://www.bls. gov/cps/minwage2007.htm, has been updated for 2007. Data are presented for a wide range of characteristics, including age, sex, race, educational attainment Educational attainment is a term commonly used by statisticans to refer to the highest degree of education an individual has completed.[1] The US Census Bureau Glossary defines educational attainment as "the highest level of education completed in terms of the , and full- and part-time status. |
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